MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1928, Page 8

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

LONDON, August 16/ Another case of mistaken identity similar to that heard at the Court of Criminal Appeal on Friday—when an innocent man was identified by two persons as being the guilty party—is reported from Hendon, N.W. On July 25 Alfred George Weston, an engineer, aged 40, of no fixed address, was arrested at Marylebone, W., and handed oyer to the Hendon police. Later the same day at an identification parade be was picked out by two people as the man who had obtained £4" with a forged money order. The Hendon magistrates remanded Weston in custody and later, though Mr Fraser, representing the Post Office, asked for an adjournment, committed him for trial. Mr Fraser stated that a. man named Rider, who had been arrested in Stockport, had admitted several cases of the same description as that with which Weston was charged. - Weston was kept in custody for three weeks until last Thursday, when Mr Fraser fook the unusual course of’applying for hail on 1 behalf .of the prosecution and Sa'id it was very impHbable that any - evidence would be offered against th©j man at the Central Criminal Court.: . .. The Hendon magistrates reversed their ' -previous decision and granted boil/'Mr C. Grobely the defending solicitor pointing out that all along he had maintained that there jhad been a mistake in identification.